Warsaw's Pawiak Prison on the way out of town

1 year ago
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After a good rest the previous night, we loaded the bikes after breakfast and prepared to head out of Warsaw. We saw the buses full of Israeli soldiers and contemplated following them on their journey out of Warsaw. We actually would have done so had we be been quicker to prepare and leave. We also rationalised that their leaders would probably not be so pleased to have a couple of kibbitzers hanging around on their important journey.
Our journey was just as important so as we headed out of town we stopped at the sight of the Pawiak Prison ruins. We had seen this on a tourist flyer in the hotel highlighted by one of the brochures. Unfortunately, once again very little credence was given to the Jewish contribution in the Ghetto fighting and in the assistance Jews provided in the various partisan groups fighting the Nazis in Poland.
We headed out of town with no cops impeding our progress as we headed north east some 115kms to the first death camp we would visit...Treblinka.
I made a mistake in the video voice over mentioning the distance to Treblinka was only 60kms when in fact is was roughly double that distance.

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